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I'll conceed that the sports doping analogy was a stretch, but I only did that for effect. However the articles I linked to regarding retractions linked to misconduct did indicate hundreds of examples of misconduct. Here's another one:

Science publishing: The trouble with retractions : Nature News

No "hefty assumption" on that one. I've posted about four article references so far to repuatable sources. In this latest article we also see the attempt by the scientific community to whitewash the problem by "embracing it" as evidence that the system works. Funny how the politics are the same in science as anywhere else.

<blockquote data-quote="Randall" data-source="post: 149055" data-attributes="member: 2682">I&#039;ll conceed that the sports doping analogy was a stretch, but I only did that for effect. However the articles I linked to regarding retractions linked to misconduct did indicate hundreds of examples of misconduct. Here&#039;s another one:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111005/full/478026a.html" target="_blank">Science publishing: The trouble with retractions : Nature News</a>&nbsp;No &quot;hefty assumption&quot; on that one. I&#039;ve posted about four article references so far to repuatable sources. In this latest article we also see the attempt by the scientific community to whitewash the problem by &quot;embracing it&quot; as evidence that the system works. Funny how the politics are the same in science as anywhere else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randall, post: 149055, member: 2682"] [FONT=arial]I'll conceed that the sports doping analogy was a stretch, but I only did that for effect. However the articles I linked to regarding retractions linked to misconduct did indicate hundreds of examples of misconduct. Here's another one:[/FONT] [FONT=arial][url="http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111005/full/478026a.html"]Science publishing: The trouble with retractions : Nature News[/url][/FONT] [FONT=arial]No "hefty assumption" on that one. I've posted about four article references so far to repuatable sources. In this latest article we also see the attempt by the scientific community to whitewash the problem by "embracing it" as evidence that the system works. Funny how the politics are the same in science as anywhere else.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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